Robin Hood
Synopsis: Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology…
A Secret and Unlawful Killing: a Mystery of Medieval Ireland
A Secret and Unlawful Killing: a Mystery of Medieval Ireland By Cora Harrison Publisher: Minotaur Books, January 1, 2009 ISBN:9780312586027 It is 1509…
Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London
Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London By Shannon McSheffrey Law and History Review, Vol. 27:3 (Fall 2009) Introduction: In early sixteenth-century…
The concept of marriage in Roman, Byzantine and Serbian mediaeval law
The concept of marriage in Roman, Byzantine and Serbian mediaeval law By Šarkić Srđan Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta, Issue 41 (2004) Abstract: In this…
Violence and Predation in Medieval Europe
Daniel Lord Smail, Professor of History at Harvard University, spoke at a lecture at the University of Toronto’s Centre of Medieval Studies on…
Emperors, Jurists and Kings: Law and Custom in the Late Roman and Early Medieval West
Emperors, Jurists and Kings: Law and Custom in the Late Roman and Early Medieval West By P. S. Barnwell Past and Present, No. 168…
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval”
Guilty as Charged? Subjectivity and the Law in La Chanson de Roland and “Lanval” Kong, Katherine Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 17 (2000)…
Queer Relations
Queer Relations Dinshaw, Carolyn Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract This paper draws on materials from my book, Getting Medieval: Sexualities…
Gaimar’s Rebels: Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England
Gaimar’s Rebels:Outlaw Heroes and the Creation of Authority in Twelfth-Century England Zatta, Jane Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract Located at…
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France
The Implications of Exclusion: The Regulation of Churching in Medieval Northern France Rieder, Paula M. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract…
The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances: Heretical Outsider or Political Insider
The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances: Heretical Outsider or Political Insider Goodman, Barbara A. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 15 (1998) Abstract…
Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Do cuments in the Literary Imagination
Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Documents in the Literary Imagination Davis, Bryan P. Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 13 (1996)…
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England
Narratives of a Nurturing Culture:Parents and Neighbors in Medieval England Hanawalt, Barbara Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 12 (1995) Abstract A current trend…
Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers
Holy War and the Medieval Lawyers By James A. Brundage The Holy War, edited by Thomas Patrick Murphy (Ohio State University Press, 1976)…
Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law
Domestic Peace and Public Order in Anglo-Saxon Law By Rebecca Colman The Anglo-Saxons, synthesis and achievement, edited by J. Douglas Woods, David Anthony…
Barcelona, a Society and its Law: 11th-13th Centuries
The legal system in Barcelona in the Lower Middle Ages – which we regard as a synthesis of rights (usages, customs, privileges, laws, and so on) and organization (municipality, universitat de prohoms, consulates, etc.) – had already attained maturity in the 13th century.
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity
Philosophies of Imprisonment in Late Antiquity By Mary Olson Constructing the Past, Vol.9:1 (2008) Abstract: One of the few things that prisons were not…
Peregrini, Barbari, and Cives Romani: Concepts of Citizenship and the Legal Identity of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire
Peregrini, Barbari, and Cives Romani: Concepts of Citizenship and the Legal Identity of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire By Ralph W. Mathisen The American…
Handbooks and local jurisdiction in Ming China. According to the sections on judicial matters in the «Shih cheng lu» by Lü K’un, a handbook for magistrates
Handbooks and local jurisdiction in Ming China. According to the sections on judicial matters in the «Shih cheng lu» by Lü K’un, a…
Women and Crime in Later Mediaeval England: An Examination of the Evidence of the Courts of Gaol Delivery, 1388 to 1409
Women and Crime in Later Mediaeval England: An Examination of the Evidence of the Courts of Gaol Delivery, 1388 to 1409 Garay, Kathleen…
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits
Anglo-Saxon Women Before the Law: A Student Edition of Five Old English Lawsuits By Andrew Rabin Old English Newsletter, Vol. 41.3 (2008) Introduction The…
Understanding peace in 13th century German culture. Were the Rhenish league and town leagues “coniurationes”?
Understanding peace in 13th century German culture. Were the Rhenish league and town leagues “coniurationes”? By Ossi Kokkonen Ennen Ja Nyt, Vol.4 (2004) Introduction: In…
Theodore Balsamon’s Canonical Images of Women
Theodore Balsamon’s Canonical Images of Women Viscuso, Patrick Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, articles (2004 – 2008) Abstract The jurist Balsamon, in the…
The Scrope and Grosvenor Controversy, 1385-1391
Caught at an event wearing the exact same outfit as someone else? Well, what if you wore the same coat of arms to a battle? In 1385, King Richard II of England invaded Scotland with his army. During this invasion, two of the king’s knights realized that they were using the same coat of arms.
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England
Kin and the Courts: Testimony of Kinship in Lawsuits of Angevin England By Nathaniel L. Taylor Haskins Society Journal, Vol. 15 (2005) Synopsis: In…